My final piece of the year is also my first novelette (a short one, complete at 8,400 words, but still the longest thing I've published so far). It's an apocalyptic tale about birds, Greece, and the stories we tell each other at the end of the world.You can read "The Birding: a Fairy Tale" here, or listen to the podcast, read wonderfully by Anaea Lay (just over an hour long).